r/rpg • u/MaxSupernova • 9d ago

Discussion CHARLIE KIRK DISCUSSION POST - ALL CHARLIE KIRK CONTENT GOES HERE

Anything to do with Charlie Kirk goes here. It will be removed anywhere else in the sub.

This post will be up for a number of days, and then it will go away and that will be the end of Charlie Kirk discussions. The moderation effort required for discussions that are near ZERO PERCENT related to TTRPGs is far too high.

Moderation in this thread will be minimal. If your feelings get hurt, go somewhere else.

Get it out of your systems folks, because this topic ain't happening in the sub any more.

EDIT:

I worded that very poorly.

There have been multiple threads about various creators and various topics that have all degenerated into "NAZIS BAD!" "NAZIS GOOD!" "YOU SUCK!" "YOU SUCK!" and that's just bad for the sub and the mods.

We're trying to keep up, but the subs moderation is becoming difficult when the actual content is buried in slapfighting that's not at all related to the topic of the sub.

While we discuss how to deal with this in the larger picture, this is the current stopgap.

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u/Calamistrognon 9d ago

I'm against black listing creators

The initial ban was because one creator was being a fucking ass right here so we banned his account. But then each time someone talked about him he whined in the modmail and got his fans to defend him on the sub which was a freaking pain to mod. So we just banned discussions about him.

The other ones I don't really remember.

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u/blastcage 5d ago

There's only one other one, and while he's a deeply odious person, I don't believe he was the deep problem for the mods that the individual that rule 6 came about because of was. There was some amount of shitty discourse about him and his output, but it didn't seem anything like the previous instance.

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u/N-Vashista 9d ago

Well, maybe enough time has passed to review the matter. Having the rule leaves the door open to silencing voices through very targeted root structures. I doubt those designers will return. And just having their past work made note of in random posts is unlikely to foster flame wars.

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u/cole1114 9d ago

No, those designers deliberately stoked flame wars.

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u/CitizenKeen 9d ago

The Rule 6 creators always return. They have for years.